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Preventing the spread of the flu in the community, past and present

| March 10, 2020 8:43 AM

When the Spanish Flu struck Libby, modern medicine remained in its infancy.

Historian John Barry, author of “The Great Influenza,” wrote in a 2017 piece for Smithsonian Magazine that when the illness washed across America, doctors still thought “miasma” might have played a role in the spread of the virus...

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